Mission Statement

This taught, interdisciplinary, European Master’s programme is an open
invitation. Its unique two-year course will guide innovative individuals to become
instrumental in fostering Creativity and Innovation. Whatever one’s interest, Creativity spurs all
human endeavour, be it in Culture, Economy, the Arts, Business, Education,
Sport, Management, Life Sciences...

A paradigm shift is taking place – the Knowledge Economy is giving way to the
Creativity Economy. In the face of the crisis gripping so many levels of Human
Society – from the economy, to the environment, to the inequalities and divisions
these are bringing about, on so many levels, within the fabric of human relations
– and sensing the consequent, urgent and ever-growing need for creative and
positive responses to be given, the Master’s programme asks a fundamental
question: “What enables human action to open out into Creativity?”

• Noting that science is showing that the motor programme is a key to many
of the human brain’s capabilities;
• Noting the widened contemporary use of the word “performance” (we speak
of the performance of an economy, a musician, a politician, a car, an
investment portfolio);
• Noting that the highly sophisticated training performers are required to
undertake is shown by science to strengthen Memory Systems and Learning
Processes,

the programme chose to study creativity by performers in sport and theatre as a
possible route via which to face the question.

“Performers” are, at the same time, “artist”, “medium” and “artistic product”. Inquiring into how the brain allows “performers” to work upon themselves in self-correcting feedback loops which refine the self will enable one to inquire into how the Human mind works to empower itself. MSPC’s broad-spectrum investigation of this phenomenon will enable students to gain unique insights into the genesis of Creativity. MSPC aims to transcend the mere acquisition of knowledge, where Creativity may be seen as a skill or a tool. Its aim is to enable “Learning to Learn” (click here to see an abridged version of a very interesting February 2011 report by The Royal Society), the constant evolving of contexts for the innovative, inventive and creative handling of knowledge. Which is what it means to be Human (click here to see a December 2005 report with precisely this title, by the EU High Level N.E.S.T Expert Group - New and Emerging Science and Technology).

The programme thus offers its graduates a platform from which to launch out into innovative and creative work in a vast range of contexts – within the ambits of the cognitive sciences, culture, business management, social work, marketing, education, economics, inclusion strategies, for example, as well as the plastic arts, sports, the performing arts ...